Jacindamania Assessed

I had the pleasure of writing for my friend Douglas Williams of the South Lawn. Jacindamania has been felt across left circles internationally and our overseas friends are all to eager to project upon New Zealand a redemptive optimism. Others such as Ben Mack writing for the Washington Post can only see Trumpism and an American framework for our unique antipodean politics. In this article I describe Ardern as more Trudeau than Corbyn, and in less hyperbolic terms than Mack describe Labour’s concerning rightward immigration gambit.